The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.