For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.