Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.