There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.