To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.