France is great because she is France.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry