Those who do not weep, do not see.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

I think, therefore I doubt.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.