Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

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.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.