Triumph cannot help being cruel.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.