“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old”

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head”

“There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.”

“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead”

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart ”