“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”
Truth“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”
Time“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”
Truth“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”
Art“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Education“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
God“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
Happiness“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Future“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
Courage“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
Men“Toleration is the best religion.”
Best“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
Beauty“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Power“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“Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
Smile“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
Future“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
Beauty“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
Great“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
Men“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
God“Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.”
Good“There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
Love