I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.