[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Hope is only the love of life.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.