But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.