Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.