To learn to read is to light a fire.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps