The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.