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.

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

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.