Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future because to live consists inexorably in doing in each individual life making itself.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed and how he will dispose of its products.

Freedom morality and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so but because he freely conceives it wants it and loves it.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of life.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like but in having the right to do what we ought.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind yet not apart from the world of natural phenomena.