A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks