"Certainly the condition of our affairs [in Europe], slipping as we are into ever greater corruption, seems to be such that we need missionaries from the Chinese who might teach us the use and practice…"

"He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things."

"All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so clos…"

"The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought."

"To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love."