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

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

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.

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame

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

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

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds