There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

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

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.