Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

The dice of God are always loaded.

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.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.