The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

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

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks