The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.