A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.