It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

Love is reducing the universe to one being.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.