Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

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

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.