There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.