When liberty returns, I will return.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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.