Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

I live, which is the main point.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.