What we do not understand we have no right to judge

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

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

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.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!