Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.