How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.