A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.