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

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 eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

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

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.