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.

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

Calculation never made a hero.

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.