The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

It is in man’s heart that the life of nature’s spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Great eaters of meat are in general more cruel and ferocious than other men. The English are known for their cruelty.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.