Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

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

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

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

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.