If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!