Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.