If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

The only sin is stupidity.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.