If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
That art is best which suggests most.
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.