Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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

Progress is the life-style of man.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.