Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.