We are for religion against the religions.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.