When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.
Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.