Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Life is a flower of which love is honey.

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

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.