Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.