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.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.