There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

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

Progress is the stride of God.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.