No religion can be built on force.
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
No one makes a revolution by himself.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.