How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Science brings men nearer to God.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an evolution which, as we now know, has been going on for millions, nay, hundreds of millions of years), has finally exhausted all the possibilities of producing virulent or contagious diseases - which does not seem very likely.

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

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.