The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.