Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.