There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.