“The reflection of a fact is in itself a fact.”

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”

“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”

“This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.”

“There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.”

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”

“Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.”