Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.