Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.