Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.