There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.