Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

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.

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.