“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”

“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”

“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained.”

“The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it.”

“I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.”

“Nous aimons, sans nous en douter, tout ce qui nous livre à nos penchants, nous séduit et excuse notre faiblesse.”

“A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”