The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Party politics is now a real farce.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.