Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.