No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

A lonely impulse of delight

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

In dreams begins responsibility.