“Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
Smile“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.”
God“Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
Smile“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
Great“Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
Change“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
God“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”
Great“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
Imagination“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”
Great“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.”
Love“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Faith“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.”
Beauty“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Music“We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.”
Women“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
Beauty“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.”
Thanksgiving“A library implies an act of faith.”
Faith“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
Happiness“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
Love“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
Time“Conscience is God present in man.”
God“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
Morning