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.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.