I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.