When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.