Loving is half of believing.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.
Plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence
Habit is the nursery of errors.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Without seeking to comprehend the incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled by Him.
Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.
People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.
Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.
Lend your ear then to this tutti of steeples; diffuse over the whole the buzz of half a million of human beings, the eternal murmur of the river, the infinite piping of the wind, the grave and distant...
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, a...
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the sam...
Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and know...