Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.