... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

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

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.