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" The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. "

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" To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. "

" The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. "

" Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. "

" Liberation is not deliverance. "

" What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. "

" Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. "

" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "

" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "

" The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. "

" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "

" When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. "

" Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. "

" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. "

" What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. "

" There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. "

" Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. "

" Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. "

" Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. "

" Many great actions are committed in small struggles. "

" How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. "

" An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. "

" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "

" Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. "

" When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. "

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "

" One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. "

" Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. "

" A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. "