The only way to have a friend is to be one.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.