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

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.