“A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.”

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.

When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.