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

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

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

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

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.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.