1. “Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
2. "Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day." ‘
3. “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.”
4. "Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."
5. "Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."
6. "Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination."
7. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
8. “The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.”
9. "The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them."
10. "There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
11. "To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
