As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.