"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
"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."
"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."
"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."
"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."