To create something you must be something.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.