From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.