If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
A poet is a world enclosed in a man.