It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

Truth is more than a dream and a song.