Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

The great majority of men especially in France both desire and possess a fashionable woman much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Without a family man alone in the world trembles with the cold.

Broadly speaking the short words are the best and the old words best of all.

Man alone is born crying lives complaining and dies disappointed.

Service is divine - It makes life worthwhile.

Man must vanquish himself must do himself violence in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three, and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

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