Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.