Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.
Every life is a profession of faith.
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
The unfinished is nothing.
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.