Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.