The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.