Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.