All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.