Ideas consume the ages as passions consume men. When man is cured, humanity may possibly cure itself.
Humanity rolls out like a many-colored ribbon. See the diverse shades of that flower of the celestial gardens.
How mad a man must appear when desire renders him alternately angry and tender, insolent and abject, biting as an epigram and soothing as a madrigal!
Great artists are beings who, to quote Napoleon, can cut off at will the connection which Nature has put between the senses and thought.
Gold is the spiritual basis of existing society.
God would have been strangely unjust had he confined the testimony of his power to certain generations and peoples and denied them to others. The brazen rod belongs to all.
God may seem to you incomprehensible and inexplicable, but you must admit Him to be, in all things purely physical, a splendid and consistent workman.
God makes no mistake in His judgments, Madame; I recognize no tribunal but His.
From the moment that your suspicions are aroused, you ought to be like a man mounted on a tricky horse, who always watches the ears of the beast, in fear of being thrown from the saddle.
Frightful condition of the human race! there is no one of its joys that does not come from some species of ignorance.
Friendship is the bond between a pair of kindred souls, united in their strength, and yet independent. Let us be friends and comrades to bear jointly the burden of life.
Fraction does not exist in Nature, where what you call a fragment is a finished whole.