But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go.

A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.

Plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence.

All our heroism stems from our womenfolk. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer;;the woman sparks the charge.

I mean to say that man has a tyrant,—ignorance. I voted for the death of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man should be governed only by science.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.