Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.