It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

By thought I embrace the universe.