Our virtues and view spring from one root.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

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

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.