What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.