The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.