Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

The unfinished is nothing.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.