We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.