This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.