What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.