The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

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

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

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.