Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

One errs as long as one strives.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.