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

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.