Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.