The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.