Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.