We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.