A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.