It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.