“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ”

“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed.”

“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”

“God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.”

“Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.”

“Ah, what he is; that is quite another thing. I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron's heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.”

“In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God”