Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.