Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

Every artist was first an amateur.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.