"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life"
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education"
"Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit"
"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"
"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers"
"Genius: the superhuman in man"
"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite"
"Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach"
"Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions"
"Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary"
"It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her"
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live"
"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like"
"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life"
"It is by suffering that human beings become angels"
"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant"
"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them"
"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men"
"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery"
"Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God"
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human"
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet"
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come"
"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters"
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise"
"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides"
"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings"
"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer"
"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
