Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

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

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.