"Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness."

“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”

“Men do not change; they unmask themselves.”

“You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.”

“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”

“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”

“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”