Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.