On every mountain height is rest.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.