The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Joy is the reflex of terror.

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.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.