Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.