💬 Quotes

"I desired to etch deeper than the common, and to leave some trace of myself on the globe, like those who come before and are forgotten."

"The hours when the mind is absorbed in beauty are the only hours when we really live."

"I wanted more sun and breeze, and for the great earth to expand my soul."

"To be beautiful is to be happy; those who are beautiful in heart are happy."

"Let me creep in among the grass and hide myself in the leaves, so that I may be filled with a deeper life."

"The soul-life is infinitely more than the bodily life; it is the reality, of which the body is only the shadow."

"Cleopatra possessed a fascinating combination of personal charm, high intellectual attainments, and an unbridled ambition for supreme power."

"In her interview with Caesar, she relied not merely on her rank as queen, but upon the irresistible fascination of her manners and her personal charms."

"The course of the Egyptian queen was always guided by policy rather than affection; her alliances were formed solely to aggrandize her kingdom and secure her own dominion."

"Antony, captivated by the splendor of her court and the magic of her presence, surrendered himself entirely to her influence, forgetting his duties and his honor at Rome."

"When she found that all her arts were powerless against the stern and inflexible policy of Octavius, she resolved to escape the degradation of a Roman triumph by a voluntary death."

"Thus terminated the career of one of the most remarkable sovereigns of antiquity—a woman whose beauty, talents, and misfortunes have rendered her name immortal."

"The saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. He will generally be found to be celebrating chiefly that virtue which has been lightly esteemed in his own age."

"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues."

"Thirst is not a fancy; and the fact that we can be thirsty is good evidence that we were meant to drink."

"Thomas Aquinas was a great architect because he was a great logician. He built with syllogisms as a man builds with bricks."

"To Aristotle, a man is a man; to a Plato or a Buddha, a man is a phantom or a part of the universal whole. Thomas insisted that a thing is itself, and has the awful dignity of existence."

"It is the chief characteristic of the religion that it is a creed of the incarnation; it is the realization of God not only as a great mind, but as a great maker, and therefore as a material maker."

"Die Öffentlichkeit ist wie das Meer: wer nicht schwimmen kann, geht unter, und wer zu tief hineinwill, den verschlingt die Tiefe."

"Man muss die Menschen nehmen, wie sie sind, aber man darf sie nicht so lassen, wie sie sind, wenn man etwas Gutes wirken will."