Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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.