If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

I am the Spirit that denies.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.