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

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

"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."

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

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

"Order is power."

"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."

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

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

"True humility is contentment."

"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."

"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."