Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

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.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.