The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.