Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

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.