I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty