The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Conscience is God present in man.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.