Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

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

Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.