The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.