We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.