She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
A writer is a world trapped in a person.
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
He who despairs is wrong.
Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.