The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

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

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.