Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.