Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.