The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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.
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.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
