Chance generally favors the prudent.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

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

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

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

Close your eyes and you will see.