Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.