New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.