A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.