"The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception."

Autobiography. Book xviii. Truth and Beauty.

"The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants."

Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792.

"It is only the dead who do not return."

Speech, 1794.

"Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain."

The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.

"The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets."

Don Carlos. Act i. Sc. 6.

"Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!"

The Marseilles Hymn.

"To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe! March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!"

The Marseilles Hymn.

"There is another and a better world."

The Stranger. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Into the silent land! Ah, who shall lead us thither?"

The Silent Land.

"Who in life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear hope's tender blossoms Into the silent land!"

The Silent Land.

""It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,"--words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others."

Memoirs of Fouché.

"Death is an eternal sleep."

Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794.

"Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?"

Life let us cherish.

"Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,-- Take, I give it willingly; For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me."

The Passage. Edinburgh Review, October, 1832.

"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."

Ingomar the Barbarian. Act ii.

"Terrible he rode alone, With his Yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the notches on the blade."

The Death Feud. An Arab War-song.

"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis i. 3.

"It is not good that the man should be alone."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis ii. 18.

"Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis ii. 23.

"They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis iii. 7.

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis iii. 19.

"For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis iii. 19.

"The mother of all living."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis iii. 20.

"Am I my brother's keeper?"

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis iv. 9.

"My punishment is greater than I can bear."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis iv. 13.

"There were giants in the earth in those days."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis vi. 4.

"And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis vii. 12.

"The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis viii. 9.

"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis ix. 6.

"Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xiii. 8.

"In a good old age."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xv. 15.

"His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xvi. 12.

"Old and well stricken in age."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xviii. 11.

"His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xix. 26.

"The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xxvii. 22.

"They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xxxvii. 23.

"Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xlii. 38.

"Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel."

The Bible, Old Testament. Genesis xlix. 4.

"I have been a stranger in a strange land."

The Bible, Old Testament. Exodus ii. 22.

"A land flowing with milk and honey."

The Bible, Old Testament. Exodus iii. 8; Jeremiah xxxii. 22.

"Darkness which may be felt."

The Bible, Old Testament. Exodus x. 21.

"The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire."

The Bible, Old Testament. Exodus xiii. 21.

"When we sat by the fleshpots."

The Bible, Old Testament. Exodus xvi. 3.

"Love thy neighbour as thyself."

The Bible, Old Testament. Leviticus xix. 18.

"The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?"

The Bible, Old Testament. Numbers xxii. 28.

"Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!"

The Bible, Old Testament. Numbers xxiii. 10.

"How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!"

The Bible, Old Testament. Numbers xxiv. 5.

"Man doth not live by bread only."

The Bible, Old Testament. Deuteronomy viii. 3.

"The wife of thy bosom."

The Bible, Old Testament. Deuteronomy xiii. 6.

"Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."

The Bible, Old Testament. Deuteronomy xix. 21.