You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

Life too near paralyses art.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding