Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.