Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.