People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.