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.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.