“Order is power.”
“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”
“To marry unequally is to suffer equally.”
“The best path through life is the highway.”
“To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.”
“Common sense is calculation applied to life.”
“Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.”
“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”
“The only substance properly so called is the soul.”
“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
“To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.”
“Order is a great person's need and their true well being.”
“The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.”
“There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.”
“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”
“Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.”
“We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.”
“So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.”
“To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.”
“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”
“Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.”
“Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.”
“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.”
“Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.”
“Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
“An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
“Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.”
“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.”
“Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.”