Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Every life is a profession of faith.

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