Birth: January 3, 1852 Death: 1918
The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through expe….
Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge..
Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, th….
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a reha….
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions..
Joy is not a thing, it is in us..
Simplicity is a state of mind..
When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the ….
If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment..
Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices w….
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human..