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.

It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

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

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

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.