Analysis kills spontaneity.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.