There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.