Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.