Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

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

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.