If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.