It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.