God enters by a private door into every individual.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Imitation is suicide.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.