There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health..

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison..

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more..

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is s….

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessar….

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God..

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilize….

The only substance properly so called is the soul..

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for ….

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistib….

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point ….

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy..

The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations ….

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-lo….

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good….

Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a cal….

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you..

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident..

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power..

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness..

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever k….