From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

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I think, therefore I doubt.

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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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