Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.