Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.