Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.