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Order is power.
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because... →
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
True humility is contentment.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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