He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.