In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Emotion is always new.
The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
To learn to read is to light a fire.
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
A library implies an act of faith.
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
Be happy without picking flaws.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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.
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.
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