We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

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

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

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.