She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.