Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Liberation is not deliverance.
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.
It is nothing to die, but it is frightful not to live.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, – it is his will that we should love.