An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.