Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.