Religion is only a form of morality.
The most serious problems of contemporary man arise from the fact that he has lost his sense of conscious cooperation with God in His purpose for mankind.
Freedom does not consist, in fact, in abstinence, but rather in self-mastery.
Free laws are good when they are given to people who respect themselves, and therefore respect their own duty, the duty of citizenship.
Power needs no swearing.
The love of pleasure begets voluptuousness, and voluptuousness, cruelty.
Society is built on moral foundations.
The consciousness of your own impotence to do even anything useful for mankind, being convinced of the suffering of mankind, can change in your heart the love of mankind into the hatred of it.
Contact with nature is the last word of any kind of progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and elegant manners.
Compassion is the highest form of human existence.
Happiness does not consist in happiness, but only in the attainment of it.
Talent needs sympathy and understanding.
Feeling is purified only when it is in contact with the highest beauty, with the beauty of an ideal.
Just live, live and live! To live no matter how - just to live! What truth! God, what truth! The man is a scoundrel! And villain is he who makes him villain for this.
Anyone who wants to see the Living God, should look for Him not on the empty vault of their own reason, but in human love.
He who does not understand his vocation, most of the time, lacks respect for himself.
The honest always have more enemies than the dishonest.
It's amazing what a single ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!
Learn and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.
Fantasy is a natural human power. By not satisfying it, you will either kill it or, conversely, allow it to develop too much (which is harmful).
Good thoughts are preferable to great style. A style is, so to speak, an outer garment; a thought is the body hidden under clothes.
Man is a whole world, it is important that the main reason that animates him is noble.
Man is a being who gets used to anything and in my opinion this is the best definition of man.
The man who was not a child will be a bad citizen.
The more nationalistic we are, the more European we will be.
What will you bring people together to achieve your civic goals if not based on a great moral idea?
An honest man lives so that he makes enemies.
What is talent? Talent is the ability to say something or express yourself well where mediocrity will make it ugly.
What appears to the mind as shame, to the heart appears to be full beauty.
To love simply, you must know how to show your love.