No one can keep a secret better than a child.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.