“People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.”

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood and make France pariah among the civilized nations of the world.”

“Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.”

“the odds are good, but the goods are odd”

“when they're bathed in blood everyday you can't expect them to rise from it stainless the next morning.”

“But yield who will their separation,My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.Only where love and need are one,And the work is play for mortal stakes,Is the deed ever really doneFor Heaven and the future's sakes.”

“We tend to go on loving the things the people who loved us loved. They are invested with soul, even if the people are long dead, even if they do not turn out to be who you thought they were.”