Literature is the most beautiful of countries

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

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.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.