It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.