If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.