Only the soul that loves is happy

Collectors are happy people.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.