For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

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

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.