Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.