You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

We are for religion against the religions.

To love beauty is to see light.

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.