Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.