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.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

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

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.