He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables