The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.