There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. - André Gide

L'homme se dégagera peu à peu de ce qui le protégeait naguère; de ce qui désormais l'asservit.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

At this solemn moment, he would like to have some rare, sublime experience — hear a message from the world beyond — send his thought flying into ethereal regions, inaccessible to mortal senses. But no! his thought remains obstinately grovelling on the earth;