One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.