“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”

“I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself--whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any class is fatal to the welfare of the whole,”

“I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.”

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

“Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.”

“Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.”

“What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.”

“With you it is always the law, never equity.”

“It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”

“You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.”

“We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.”