There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.