To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.