Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

Travel is a fools paradise.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Men are respectable only as they respect.