Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves.
Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Be swift to love and make haste to be kind. Gladden others’ hearts.” .
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri.
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.