The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.