Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.