Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.