The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.