Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

True humility is contentment.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.