Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.