Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.