Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly