If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

To make something you have to be something.