Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

One must keep repeating the Truth.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.