Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

Happy people have no history.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.