So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.