Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

France is great because she is France.

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.