- I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
- It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining
about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very
essence of life.
- To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only
plan, but also believe.
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Good angels are fallible. They sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
- Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

