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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.