There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.