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.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.