All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.