Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.