Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.