Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.