If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.