"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God"
"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful"
"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul"
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future"
"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling"
"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free"
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace"
"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness"
"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both"
"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced"
"The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand"
"Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest"
"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time"
"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence"
"Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter"
"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God"
"Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on"
"Puns are the droppings of soaring wits"
"Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance"
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees"
"By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour"
"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed"
"Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!"
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man"
"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly"
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark"
"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness"
"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization"
"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary"
"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night"
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable"
"Stupidity talks, vanity acts"
"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure"
"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise"
"Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone"
"To contemplate is to look at shadows"
"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said"
"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars"
"One believes others will do what he will do to himself"
"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores"
"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh"
"I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself"
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come"
"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters"
"A war between Europeans is a civil war"
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them"
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor"
"A library implies an act of faith"
"A great artist is a great man in a great child"
"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them"
