Every epoch dreams its successor.
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.