Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Patriotism corrupts history.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.