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

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.