I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.