Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

Hope is only the love of life.

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

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.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

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