Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.