God made the water but men made the wine.
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.