It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.