The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.