Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

Ask the young. They know everything.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.