We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.