Doubt grows with knowledge.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

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

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.