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Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

The best path through life is the highway.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

True humility is contentment.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

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