To create something you must be something.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.