If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

We must be young to do great things.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.