The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

I was dying when you came.