Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. (From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
