Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

France is great because she is France.

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.