Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.