It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.