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.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Progress is the stride of God.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.