Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.