True art is reverent imitation of God.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.