It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of 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.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.