Christianity is called the religion of pity.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?