From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

[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.

We only understand that which already is within us.