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

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.