I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory