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.

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

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

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

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.