There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.