the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.