"Towards this fine honor of a trade converged all the finest, all the most noble sentiments—dignity, pride. Never ask …"

"Faith is a loyal Wife. Charity is a Mother. An ardent mother, noble-hearted. Or an older sister who is like a mother.…"

"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

"Tyranny is always better organised than freedom."

"The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, …"

"The life of the honest man must be an apostasy and a perpetual desertion. The honest man must be a perpetual renegade…"

"These bygone workmen did not serve, they worked. They had an absolute honor, which is honor proper. A chair rung had …"

"There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand."

"The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope."

"In my servant the ant, my tiny servant, who hoards greedily like a miser. Who works like one unhappy and who has no b…"