Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

All our knowledge is symbolic.