"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
"All mankind love a lover."
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."