Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.