The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

I love the majesty of human suffering.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?