The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.