The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.

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

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.