How! No criticism at all? No. Genius is an entity like nature and, like nature, it wants to be accepted purely and simply. A mountain is taken or left. There are people who criticize the Himalayas stone by stone! Everything in genius has its reason for being. It is because it is. Its name is the reverse of its light. Its fire is a consequence of its flame. Its precipice is the condition of its height.
The freedom to love is no less sacred than the freedom to think. What is now called adultery was once called heresy.
A revolution is the larva of a civilization.
There is only one power: conscience in the service of justice; there is only one glory: genius, in the service of truth.
In man there is a serpent: the intestine, which tempts, betrays, and punishes.
A faith: behold the most necessary thing for man. Unfortunate is the one who believes in nothing.
Misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty are battlefields that have their heroes.
Modesty is the epidermis of the soul.
He who denies progress is impious; he who denies progress denies providence, for providence and progress are the same thing, and progress is nothing more than one of the human names of the Eternal God.