It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.