To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.