Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.