And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.