Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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.