The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

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

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