“An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.”

“A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.”

“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”

“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.”

“Truth is not only violated by falsehood;it may be outraged by silence.”

“Feebleness of will brings about weakness of head, and the abyss, in spite of its horror, comes to fascinate us, as though it were a place of refuge. Terrible danger! For this abyss is within us; this gulf, open like the vast jaws of an infernal serpent bent on devouring us, is in the depth of our own being, and our liberty floats over this void, which is always seeking to swallow it up.”

“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”