There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

We find in life exactly what we put into it