“Saying is one thing and doing is another”

“If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, ‘Because it was he; because it was I.’ There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union.”

“It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.”

“The beautiful souls are they that are unniversal, open, and ready for all things.”

“We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”

“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?”

“Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)”