Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

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.

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.