This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.