To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent..

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing..

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new..

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit..

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage..

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind..

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy..

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks..

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion..

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail..

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

Analysis kills spontaneity..

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything..

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ea….

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself..

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are ….

Common sense is the measure of the possible..

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied..

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I hav….

Life alone can rekindle life..

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