Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

There are things stronger than the strongest man.