Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.