“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
God“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
Happiness“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
God“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Time“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.”
Poetry“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Future“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
Attitude“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Happiness“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”
Poetry“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”
Art“Toleration is the best religion.”
Best“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.”
Art“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
Beauty“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
Love“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
Happiness“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
God“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
Great“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.”
Architecture“People do not lack strength they lack will.”
Strength“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
Thanksgiving“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
Men“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
Time