The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.