All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.