Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.