If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.