You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Be happy without picking flaws.