Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.