“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”
Poetry“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
God“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”
Poetry“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
Men“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
Men“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“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
Imagination“Toleration is the best religion.”
Best“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
Peace“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Faith“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
Men“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.”
Great“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“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Education“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Time“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
Happiness“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.”
Great“I'm religiously opposed to religion.”
Religion“Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.”
God“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
God“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
Morning“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”
Nature