Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.