Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

Progress is the life-style of man.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.