I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.