There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

A library implies an act of faith.