The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

There is properly no history, only biography.