The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.