As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.