Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.