You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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.

In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.