One lives but once in the world.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.