These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

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.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.