What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.