“You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.”
“In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.”
“The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.”
“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who will be saved from the coming destruction.”
“I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it’s just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.”
“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the beauty of a world or of a dung heap; her destiny is never to be mediocre.”