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

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

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

None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.