... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.