We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.