“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character”

“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives”

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength”

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object”

“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes”