It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.