He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.