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

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

The artist is called a creator.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

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