Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.