The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.