To love beauty is to see light.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

To think is to suffer.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Love is the only future God offers.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

You who suffer because you love, love still more! To die of love, is to live by it.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.