The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.