A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.