All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

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.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.