They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

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.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.