I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.