Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.

I am still young to keep learning.

When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing.

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.