The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.