Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.