I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.