The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."

To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.