All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.