He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

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

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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.

I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.