My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.