Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.