Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.