The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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