To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

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.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.