Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.