The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.