There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.