“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”
Nature“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.”
Love“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”
Nature“There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
Love“Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
Change“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
God“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Power“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.”
God“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
Men“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”
Art“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
Time“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
Happiness“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
Future“Toleration is the best religion.”
Best“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“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Future“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
Education“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.”
Great“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
Wisdom“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“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
God“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
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