The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.