Séraphîta Quotes

Your Science, which makes you great in your own eyes, is paltry indeed beside the light which bathes a Seer.

Woman understands all things through love; what she does not understand she feels; what she does not feel she sees; when she neither sees, nor feels, nor understands, this angel of earth divines to protect you, and hides her protection beneath the grace of love.

Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

When a human soul draws its first furrow straight, the rest will follow surely.

We cannot measure the vast orbit of the Divine thought of which we are but an atom as small as God is great; but we can feel its vastness, we can kneel, adore, and wait.

Thought alone holds the tradition of the bygone life. The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

Therefore Prayer, issuing from so many trials, is the consummation of all truths, all powers, all feelings.

The words fell as the axe of a skilful woodman falls at the root of a young tree and brings it down at a single blow.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others,—existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

The Spirit of Love has acquired strength, the result of all vanquished terrestrial passions.

The passing joys of earthly love are gleams which reveal to certain souls the coming of joys more durable; just as the discovery of a single law of nature leads certain privileged beings to a conception of the system of the universe.

The higher thy flight the less canst thou see the abysses. There are none in heaven.