Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

To have lied is to have suffered.

The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

I am for religion, against religions.