I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I wait for the morning of my tears

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.