You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Love is reducing the universe to one being.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.