Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.