It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. - (France, Anatole - Action)

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. - (France, Anatole - Adversity)

In art as in love, instinct is enough. - (France, Anatole - Arts and Artists)

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. - (France, Anatole - Bargains)

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - (France, Anatole - Belief)

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. - (France, Anatole - Books - Reading)

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. - (France, Anatole - Censorship)

The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign. - (France, Anatole - Chance)

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name. - (France, Anatole - Chance)

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. - (France, Anatole - Critics and Criticism)

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. - (France, Anatole - Curiosity)

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. - (France, Anatole - Education)

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. - (France, Anatole - Education)

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. - (France, Anatole - Egotism)

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - (France, Anatole - Enthusiasm)