Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.