Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.