Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.