Despotism is a long crime.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men