We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.