And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.