[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?