I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.

It is a happiness to wonder;—it is a happiness to dream

The memory of a past happiness is the anguish of today

Les quatre conditions élémentaires du bonheur sont : la vie en plein air, l'amour d'une femme, le détachement de toute ambition et la création d'un Beau nouveau.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.