To learn to read is to light a fire.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.