God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.