Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.