Doubt can only be removed by action.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.