Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
Reality in strong doses frightens.
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Toleration is the best religion.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
Love is the only future God offers.
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
To love beauty is to see light.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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