It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.