Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.