Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.