The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Conscience is God present in man.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

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.