Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

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

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

[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.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

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