We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

Our life is woven wind.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.