In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past.
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one’s own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.
Every life is a profession of faith...
It is work which gives flavor to life.
Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.