Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life

Woman is at once apple and serpent

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

God will forgive me; that's his business.