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

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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