"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."

"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."

"Si la grandeur du dessein, la petitesse des moyens, l'immensité du résultat sont les trois mesures du génie de l'homm…"

"Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased."

"Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées."

"Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time."

"What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?"

"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens."

"I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night."