There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Let man be true and every god a liar.