It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.