When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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