The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.