The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.