The great artist is the simplifier.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation appled to life.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
