Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!