A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.