Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

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.

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.