The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.