Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

Taste is the common sense of genius.