Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.