Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Originality provokes originality.