Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.