Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.