To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.