The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.