“where there is no more hope, song remains.”

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”

“We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes.”

“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”