A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

Every second is of infinite value.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.