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.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.