To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.