Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

A child is an angel dependent on man

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.