Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.