The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

I was dying when you came.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

France is great because she is France.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.