The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.