Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.