Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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.