There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots. - Victor Hugo

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

The orator resumes: "And if it should happen some day that a man, having in his hand the five hundred thousand officeholders who constitute the government, and the four hundred thousand soldiers composing the army, if it should happen that this man should tear up the Constitution, should violate every law, break every oath, trample upon every right, commit every crime, do you know what your irremovable magistrates, instructors in the right, and guardians of the law, would do? They would hold their tongues." Book VIII, IV

A writer is a world trapped in a person.