 As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. |
| To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. |
| Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. |
| When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. |
| The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. |
| One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. |
| A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. |
| It is by suffering that human beings become angels. |
| Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. |
| Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. |
| No one can keep a secret better than a child. |
| Taste is the common sense of genius. |
| The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. |
| The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. |
| Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. |
| 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. |
| Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Topics: Age |
| Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. |
| 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. |
| Liberation is not deliverance. |
