...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.