Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed 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.

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.

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

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.