The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

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.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

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