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

"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…"

"Dans ce bel honneur de métier convergeaient tous le plus beaux, tous le plus nobles sentiments. Une dignité. Une fier…"

"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…"

"I am so resplendent in my creation. That in order really not to see me these poor people would have to be blind."