Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.