As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.