An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.