Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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 Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.