Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.