To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.