A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.