Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

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

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.