“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”

“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”

“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”

“Toleration is the best religion.”

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

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

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”