It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.