Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.