The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

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.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.