Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.