If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

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.

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

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

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