Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

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.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.