Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

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

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.