We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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.