Hearts Live By Being Wounded

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.