The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.