To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.