The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.