Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.