When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.