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.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.