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

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

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.

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.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

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 more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.