Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

France is great because she is France.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.