Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.