The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

There is nothing that art cannot express.