Conscience is God present in man.
A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.