When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

He does not weep who does not see.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.