"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."
"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."
"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."
"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."