A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
A library implies an act of faith.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Conscience is God present in man.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
To love beauty is to see light.
To love is to act.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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