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.

Hope is only the love of life.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.