Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.