You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

Youth is life's beautiful moment.