It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.