Intimates are predestined.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.