If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Create, artist, do not talk.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.