We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

One lives but once in the world.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.