There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

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.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.