To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!