Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.