Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Love is a serious mental disease.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Thrift is of great revenue.
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