Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.