Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

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.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.