To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

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.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.