Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.