When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.