Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.