One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.