“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”

Everything transitory is but an image.

Remember to live.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

I am still of the same opinion because the impossibility of the formation of mountains by the sea is demonstrated to me.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

True happiness is impossible without solitude.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science, To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.