The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.