The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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To them the idea of man is inseparable from the idea of shade. The night is called sorgue; man, orgue. Man is a derivative of night.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.

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