We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.