The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
