The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

With knowledge grows doubt.