If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Loving is half of believing.