Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Prayer is the life of the soul.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.