 Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. |
| Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. |
| The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. |
| Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. |
| A war between Europeans is a civil war. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. |
| Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. |
| All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. |
| What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. |
| When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. |
| There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. |
| A library implies an act of faith. |
| Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. |
| It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. |
