Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.