The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.