“Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.”

“Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.”

“It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought to conscience and back again to thought.”

“The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.”

“The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.”

“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”

“To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it "progress"; and we may define progress by the word "tomorrow".”