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

I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

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

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

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