“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.”

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

Reality in strong doses frightens.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.