Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Enough or not...it will have to do