There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.