It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.