The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.