I was dying when you came.

The malicious have a dark happiness.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.