What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.