Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.