Be happy without picking flaws.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

Despotism is a long crime.

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.