There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.