Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.