Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

Every life is a profession of faith.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

[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.