The soul of a murderer is blind

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.