Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.