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.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

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

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.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

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