My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
France is great because she is France.
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.