Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.