A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.