Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
No one makes a revolution by himself.
The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.