Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.