At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

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

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

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

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

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

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