 Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. |
| Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. |
| A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. |
| Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. |
| Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. |
| One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. |
| Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. |
| The flesh is the surface of the unknown. |
| My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. |
| Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. |
| The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. |
| To think of shadows is a serious thing. |
| There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. |
| To love another person is to see the face of God. |
| Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. |
| Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. |
| Conscience is God present in man. |
| Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. |
| There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. |
| The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. |
