I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Music and Wine are one.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.