Those who live are those who fight.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

Toleration is the best religion.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

God made the water but men made the wine.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.