The breath of the mind is attention.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.