What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.