An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

The more you say, the less they remember.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.