Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Heaven is to be at peace with things.