In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

The artist is called a creator.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.