Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

Progress is the stride of God.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.