Love is reducing the universe to one being.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.