A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.