What does it matter, all is grace.
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.