A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.