Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.