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.

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.