Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.