Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.

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

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.