He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.