Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.