Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
Dare to be wrong and to dream.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.