How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.