Love is the only future God offers.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.