Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.