Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

Prayer is the life of the soul.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.