“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.”

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”

“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconseque...”

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”

“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.”