Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.