It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.