The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.