There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

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

The best path through life is the highway.