What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.