Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.