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.

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

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

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

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

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