Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.