To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Conscience is God present in man.