No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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