There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

If there is no God, then I am God.