In art, the best is good enough.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.