Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.