Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Man is bound to lie about himself

I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.