What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.