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.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.