What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.